The End of “Unprecedented Times”

I stopped using the phrase “unprecedented times” as soon as I could this semester. Because no one wants to hear what they feel in their bones, how novel this situation is, how exhausting, how sustained, and how stressful the unprecedented nature of teaching was this year. Teachers have been deprived of their strength – interacting with students – and they feel it.

I stopped using the phrase “unprecedented times” as soon as I could this semester. And you should stop now too #edchat.
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The good news is that these times will no longer be unprecedented. Teacher feedback, Online meetings, and Grading are all things the K-12 educational system has actually done after closing out this current semester.

At the end of the summer and as school readied districts and schools used the lessons of last March to inform how a campus could close, but the learning keeps going. Districts and schools prepared the best they could based upon the information available to schools about students in class during a pandemic.

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